MSK Advanced Practice

MSK Partnership Group logoThe United Kingdom Musculoskeletal Advanced Practice Standards, September 2022

The Musculoskeletal Partnership Group are pleased to launch the United Kingdom Musculoskeletal (MSK) Advanced Practice Standards (The Standards) with the MSK community.

The Standards outline the minimum knowledge, skills and behaviours required of all clinicians working at advanced practice level in the UK within the MSK specialty, across professions and sub-specialties. They are designed to inform and underpin the development and delivery of MSK advanced practice education and training programmes and pathways across the UK (at academic level 7/11; Master’s degree level).

The Standards were developed to support and promote advanced education and practice in MSK and to reduce unwarranted variation in education and practice across the regulated MSK professions and sub-specialties. In so doing, their additional purpose is to enhance the quality of MSK care, uphold patient and clinician safety, and strengthen system-level leadership to benefit populations, patients and services.

To find out more about the Standards and understand their purpose, access the Question and Answer document.